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I1I If1f IAd rf t Vf i r Tj BLUE GRASS BLADE r DO UNTO OTHERS AS YOU WOULD HAVE THEM DO UNTO YOU CONFUCIUS l fHIl 1 IS MY COUNTRY TO DO GOOD MY RELIGION TOM PAINE 8 jlrslp 01AN HONEST GOD IS THE NOBLEST WORK OF MANINGERSOLL tEDITED BY A HEATHEN IN THE INTEREST OF GOOD MORALS PUBLISHED WEEKLY 100 A YEAR IN ADVANCE f VOLi XI N011 LEXINGTON KY SUNDAY MAY 4t E M 302 X100 A YEAR r TERMS OF THE BLADE 1 iaaue for one year 100 0r tt 240 TERMS = 1100 per year In sdvsnae In clubs of five cent foreign sub acrlpticm Sliii l MAST ALL drafts and a Express orders payableto the BMJJ GRASS BLADE Ky dlsoontlnuedtrTHAT DATE on printed address tab le the time of expiration ot your sub i orlptlon- yVHHN you address advlai this office giving old ai wen new dilresu ou send your anbaorlptlon say on are a now at old sub tdi l N tr oat otttoe at liexing rTas Saoouii Olayn Mall eommnnicatlona to BLUE GRASS BLADE P BOX f 393 Lexington Kentucky i Vpuhitahwi WBKKIiY at 100 a year In adranoe Club Rates and Sample Copies The BUD will be sent for cents a year each for any order for JIVE or more Hanipla ooplt will be lInt tree AGENTS FOR THE BLADE Anybody can be an Agent for the tBlade by Bending Kvo cents each for ten papers or more- ADVERTISING IN THE BLADE 8aY8It+ 5368 + t Average Weeekly Circulation + + for 190W + 4 BLUE GRASS BLADE + + Lexington Ky + + The leading weekly In the + + State Published In the heart + + of the Blue Grass Region Clr + + culates In every State in the + + Union and In some foreign + + countries + + Reaches a liberal class ot + 4 buyers Advertising rates and + + sample copies on application + My teruia are 1000 an Inch a year paid In advance regardless ot the number of Inchea and for nothing less than a year 0 MOORS lOHARLEIiiJ THE DAMNED STUFF CALLED ALCOHOL believe that alcohol to a certain degree demoralize those who make It those who sell It and those who drink it believe from the time It Issues from the coiled and poisonous worm of the distillery until It empties Into the hell of crime death and dishonor It demoralizes everybody that touches It do not believe that anybody can contemplate the subject without be coming prejudiced against this liquid you have to do Is to think of the wrecks upon either bank of this stream of deathof the suicides of Insanity of the poverty of the Ignorance of the distress of the little children tugging at the faded dresses of weeping and despairing wives asking for bread of the men of genius It has wrecked of the millions who have struggled with Imaginary serpents produced by this devilish thing And when you think of the Jails of ofIn ot wonder that every thoughtful man is prejudiced against the damned stuff sailed alcohol Mm a INMMHHJJi t 4rI PREMIUMS FOR THE THAT BEAT THE HAND Behind the Bars or Dr Ji II Grcers Physician In the House an a Pitor ilum For Every five NeW Subserbers at Cents Each BUT THEY MUST BE NEW ONES- have started out to raise 100000 readers for the Blue Grass Blade In years from the time the linotype first turns a wheel In the Blade office and of these 25000 should be In one year from thai time Of course Mr Hughes and I appreciate that this can only bo done at the minimum margin of profit One of the plans to do this by giving premiums The rpemlums that we offer are my personwritten hook Behind the Bars 31498 and Physician In the House by Dr J H Qreer of Chicago who I think Is or was a Professor In the Medical College In that city For every new subscribersand they must be really new onesat cents each will give either one of the above books that may be selected by the party getting 5 new subscribers and he shall have one of these books for each that he may get The copies of Behind the Bars 498 that will be given are all neatly bound with gilt title and a fine picture of Editor Moore This book belongs equally fo Mr Hughes and myself We sold It at a copy until all expenses of Its publica lion were paid and about 10000 over and then we reduced the to 1 The price of Drffbreers Physician iu tbeillou I s7t1LlHlfF1 u1 iWnu d his office seems to Indicate that he Is a rich man Mr Hughes has lately visited Dn ifreers office and says he Is away up In Dr Qreer has promised to supply us as many of this book as we want at a mere nominal price As Its name sug gests It Is Intended to take the place of a physician to a great extent by In structing persons about the symptoms of diseases and their treatments The book has 1000 pages and Is so heavy that In all case where we can we will send It prepaid In all Instances by express For each 5 sent at cents each elth er one of thes beooks will besent that may be chosen by the party sending the subscribers WIRELESS SPECIAL FROM HELL AMEN CORNER HELL April 14 E M 203 Dear MooreI got here about three minutes after shuffled off the mortal In Washington Really to a man who has lived In Washlgton the change is rather a pleasant one the people here are generally more moral than In Wash ington and everybody here Is Intelligent I meet a good many of your old Campbelllto preacher chums hero They dont Ilka It not Intelligent enough for the society here and not water enou h got here they crowded out to weft me like they did you In Lexington when you got back from the peniten tiary Soot utter I got here heard an Imp that was talking to theDerll and listened to what he was saying It made mo laugh and thought would tell you about It and you might stick It In the Blade but dont give my name be cause uoul want boys Jo know am up agin this racket The conversation was Us follows Devil What ails that fellow laying on the gasollnegridiront lmpllo says hes cold Devil Cold Good God AInt he be ing roaste- dImpYcs but he S3h was aCamp helllte sky buster from Charlie Moores town and was the president of an vestment company and has gotten used to It that damned fellow Baker Imp Yes sL- rDevilWell try baking him If you print it and can get up a few copies on asbestos for this climate would like to see It Send word to my rtlfo to send a live dollar William Badefor the for a year My adress Hell Amen Corner Preachers Row Number 672437941307 Get tho figures right because you dont sonic of these other preachers will get everthlngIBut no I must be fair with them coal lies out here all night nnd they never steal It Give my love to Walton the Dally Democrat man that used to boost Barnes I like Walton man after my own heart- When you sea old Henry Duncan shake his paw for damned old rascal but have liked him ever since he tired you oil the Dally Press for making fun ot my lecture see the tine Ilnllnn hand of Charles worth In the Lexington papers loud follow and sound as a Spanish mlllnc dollar Tell him not to go up agin that Lexington bug juice too much Speaking of bug Juice reminds mo that- see from the papers that Lotus Pusher has gone out to Oklahoma Poor fel low 1 feel sorry for any man who has to live west of the Mississippi river You know Phil Sheridan said that he owned hell and Texas he would rent out Texas and live In hell SUNos to you old boy May ybu live until your whis kers will grow so long hat a Populist candidate will look like a beardless youth In comparison Speaking whiskers met old Fattier Abraham the other day You couldnt rpcognlf him from his pictures In the Bible be cause his beard Is ull singed off prophet Is like a Hilly goat he dont look natural without his beard Speaking of Billy give my love to Billy Brecklnrldge There are two preachers in Lexington that like Spencer that runs that Investment company gang In his gospel shop rand Dean Lee the Episcopalian who gay to the race tracks We are looking for old Leo XIII here every day but we dont want Sam Jones Sam Is too tough and would be a bore here because hes got no sense 1 hope he will go to heaven Speaking of bores reminds me ot Boers We are all solid for em here Ta Ta Yours fraternallyT TALMAGE TALMADGE Talmadge was one of the most extra ordinary men of his time different from all other meri possessing a dou ble Individuality that 5s without a parallel In all the nnnaJs of history a good kind sensible man concern rsoflItp actigallwhen he jituckjythogtaai possess d an mind thAt or bled him to arrive at conclusions n facility and a rapidity that excltj wonder In the minds of persons v are not familiar with this phase ofitellectual activity nlsconstructlve el lectuality was at ajl times superb he possessed a faculty of converting every subject he desired to discuss Into an Illimitable panorama of Indescribable colors forms and pyrotechnic splen dorln the midst of thla magnificent and enrapturing picture of the Imagi nation Talmadge was enabled to cur tain the running gears of his reasoning organization turn on a full head of steam pull the throttle wide open abut his eyes and fill the Intellectual atmosphere with such a bewildering maze of gauzy Inconsistencies that the mind of the average addle brained wonder befogged ghost chaser became was all right until he steamed up pulled down the curtain and permitted the engine to run wild his sermons are the hypnotic won ders of pulpit history and all that Is left of them would not make a gauzy skeleton of a gauzy dream As a word painter and a hypnotist ho was a cess He appealed to the imagination excited the faculty of wonder and veloped his audience with a frail ric of heavenly dream Beechers name will be coupled with the history of the world for many cell urles but that of Talmadge repre seats no Intellectual achievements to mtttle It to a resting place In the minds of future generations Tal uadge did as much us airy otlur mart or his tine to advance the cause of free thought His admirers belong to the unthinking unbalanced class of Ireamy religionists who neither lead nor follow and are not eaSily pushed knowing him as dill In a business way can say that my Impressions are that he was a good kind practl cal sensible man when the curtain was liP when he was Talmadge the man when Talmadge the preacher he was the most visionary dreamer I ever knew T J WYSCARVER Bless YourDear Old Heart Vcst Liberty Iowa April E M Slue Grass Blade Lexington Ky Mr Editor Moorel notice that In a few days my time subscribed for the Blade Is up You will please discontin ue the paper at that time My days are nearly up You have my good wishes for the future Yours SMITH Trlala of Theism Accused of obstructing secular life By 0 J Holyoake Cloth U t DR MliR HAMMER OF NEWTON IOWA Is tent to the Penitentiary Because He Is an Infidel Port Madlsoil Iowa April 23 1902 12C at night J JiJonrpDear You will see by the abovethat I am at Fort Madison writing you last letter as a free man This morning will bq taken to the prison and larked up for thVto and a half years jWe thoughtIt was staved off for a few weeks at least but With one hours notice was taken from my family and vhen the doors re opened will be thrust this morning Write youp4can and help her with your sympathy jt Your Brother R HAMMER- P 9Send the Blade to my address care HonNN Jones Varden Peni tentiary Fort Madison Iowa and I will Jilrrtyou as soon as get out of this tro lg WjHe me and I will answer as soon as I can M R H EDITORIAL COMMENT will Dr Hammers letter as tersely a SI isslble tod justice to the ifI way related to Dr Hammer and ha eno Interest in him other than as an exceedingly good and valu able and honest and peaceable man who as a citizen a physician a husband and father and ntidel and a Prohibitionist has spent life bis energy and his to worldInof abatenloa ness not using liquor or tobacco or en tea or coffee Amy rather long life s or father When I vasputiia the penlt6ntrary because wpa an Infidel his letter ot deep sympathy came Immediately to Jay wife Dr Hammer raised the money to ply my expenses to the annual picnic In Morals woods three miles from New ton where I two years ago last fall I was the principal speaker A splendid feast was glyen to which Christians and Infidels werfe alike Invited and the good audience was probably principally of Christians lwaa Dr Hammers guest while there and a more attentive host and hostess than he and his wife were I never saw He Is a poor man though he seemed to have a large and active practice but I think his patrons were largely of the poorer class The most cordial greetings passed be tween him and all of the many people he met when I was with him The first person that he took me to see was a young woman who was a Methodist and a hopelessly helpless valid from years of rheumatism she having expressed to him a desire to see meDr Hammer was Just beginning to get gray and Is a man about feet and Inches tall and a little more than ordi narily fleshy While he la not aggressive or un necessarily offensive In the expression ot his Infidel opinions he expresses them so freely that while I was speaking pointed to him In the audience and said There a man who will be sent ot the penitentiary simply because he la an honest man have known everything about this case from the start and I sent him to assist him In his defense have never until this time said anything about the case In the Blade because his attorneys thought best that I should trot do so have gotten my Information front Dr Hammers letters to me and from tine stenographic report of the trial Dr Hammers Is the only Instance ever saw where In a caso of this kind his own private statement of the case was worse against him than that given by the witnesses against him The whole testimony In the case Is as follows Some children had quarreled at a pub lic school Dr Hammers son Isa teacher In the public schools A man named Wheatcraft a tre mendously big and strong farmer accosted Dr Hammer and used e language In a threatening manner toI Dr Hammer Hammer said to Wheatcraft I will give you a dollar to hit me and If you hit me will kill you and he handed a bystander a dollar to give to Wheatcratt A crowd of people separated the two at this point and Dr Hammer went away and accldently met Wheatcraft father on the street and the two were standing talking In a perfectly friendly manner when the younger Wheat craft came by and slid to his father Would you talk to a dog Dr Hammer said to the younger Wheatcraft You ate a son of a bitch The younger Wheatcraft Instantly struck Hammer a tremendous blow that knocked him off the sidewalk Into the street Instantly followed Hammer and kicked uiniln the stom ach three or four times when Ham mer was so dazed from the first blow that he was defenseless People heard Wheatcrafts blown a long distance Hammer was retreating all the time and saying to Wheatcraft I will kill you If you follow me Wheatcraft repeatedly called out somebody give me a gun Hammer pulled a dirk with a blade four Inches long the blade having a leather case on It He stabbed Wheat craft twice with the blade while It still had case on It This of course did not hurt Wheatcraft and he continued to pursue and to beat then pulled off the scab bard and cut Wheatcraft five or six timesWheatcraft then quit and went away Hammer said Get a doctor for him I have cut him badly or some words like that Wheat raft went to a physician and his wounds proved to be not at all dangerous and Wbeatcrafl was In a few days all well ant so remains lam known not to b f an orator and my talk to the people for about a- nsourgnrterv a x tempore und was simply a resto I my life experleneejhere was noth ing In was severe and yEt I was told afterward that among soma people who ate of the elegant feast given principally to me there was talk of throwing me into a small lake or pond that was close by There are several things that Indi cate to me that Infidels at Newton have been terrorized by the Christians until they were afraid to do anything to help Dr Hammer and It seems to me that this whole thing from Ita beginning to its end so far has been a scheme to persecute Dr Hammer because he Is an Infidel He wrote me some time sincebeing out under bondthat he had been to see the prison and that a confinement there of three and a half years would kill him This Is now a case that should en gage the interest of every individual and of every organization In America that claims the right to express del opinions and every one of us must Immediately proceed In whatever way we think best to defend that right in this case Of course we expect the American- S cular Union and the National Lib eral tarty to act at once but In the meantime wo must give our Individual effort In the matter hope every Infidel paper In Amer- Ica and England will print this and call upon Its patrons to assist In the matter and that all of these papers will be brought and distributed among people in Iowa The Blade will have a large edition for sale at one cent a copy to be mall ed to any address or addresses DE SUN DO MOVEREV JASPER In my mother daughter of the daddy of all the Campbellltes would not allow an accompaniment to a hymn on a piano to be played In our home even after sundown on Sunday night In 1875 a prominent Presbyterian In Lexington now dead and at the devil would not take the dally paper upon which was employed because It had a Sunday Issue though he rented the house In which the paper was published to the proprietor of the paper That man was Indicted fqr keeping disorderly houses In the city of Lexington the sped tic charge being that he rented these houses to professional women prostitutes for the purpose ot conduct Ing their business He escaped fine by swearing that he did not know that they were used for Indecent purposes He marched to tho Presbyterian Church every Sunday morning with a Bible and hymn book under his arm On April 20 year of our Lord 1902 In Lexington women play foot ball as It was announced fu all the city papers they would do and not a preacher nor editor In Lexington except me t hell bound old Infidel has a word to cay against do not object to the women playing foot ball on Sunday otcoursebnL I do object to a lot of women advertising gito play foot ball when their only pur pose was to show their legs On page 840 of the Delineator for May a fine magazine there la a pic ture of women playing foot ball In pos ing for the picture a woman hi the ground has her short skirt pulled upSo as to show her leg six Inches above the knee but while the exhibition la cred- Itable all the conditions of the picture t Indicate that there was no demand for so much elevation heard aoiue young men talking ahout the women at the Lexington Sunday toot ball They said the women showed their legs all right but they were kicking like- mulestire men not the women L cause they did not like the samples and the women were not pretty De sun do move says Rev Jasper THAT LINOTYPE And the Blades One Hundred Thousand Readers If you will give me that for the linotype as I can but hope you will do I am feeling more and more each daytthe conviction that in three years the Blade will have Its 100000 readers t This is now the dream of my life 1 want such men as Thompson and Bunady and Rucker who only need the pow er to make them rekindle the fires of Smithfield to see that I have completely triumphed over their Infernal scheme to crush out the right to think a we plea e about religious matters LIttm u Out o t u t Blue Graes Blade an atl 4y1Lexingtonpropagandismprince 100000 papers JIt fChrtstlanCant we then my dear brothers andJi titnextmoney or in pledges the balance of the It has gotten to be now that hardly anyone ever sends more than lan t I suppose that after a while even at this rate we will get the but isnt it a pity to be wasting so much valuable time and opportunity The very finest articles that can J e written against the stupendous Christian fraud that is rob bing the people and filling our country tr with crime and immorality are appearing in each issue of the Blade and fully as many more Just as good are on our hands unprinted because we cannot do it with our present appliance and sub jects are every day demanding our discussion Of course if get the linotype I ex peat to crowd It and print all this splen did matter but it is u pity to keep it held back whon you all want to see it There Is for instance a piece from Kidder on Marriage that has lain hero for some weeks like the poor manhat the pool of Bethesda waiting angel to come Its one of the best of all iris many good things If I had the monoy would Just putt it out of my pocket and pay the bal ance myself but I want to go to see my son in St Louis and with railroad tickets for advertising it is honor bright all that can do to raise to cover my expenses for the whole trip and beside that if l had a barrel of money I believe I have done my share that you all ought to raise tho whole of that 500 after wo get the 500 If we fiver do the Blade will have to make 1000 to the balance for that linotype and that means economy and thrpemoreTo ou some idea of the care and constant pains that is bactt of this little paper the sweat and some times tears that you may somo times laugh while my dear wife is hardly yet halt through her duties and she has pone twice as much as I have I am only able to get to writing this piece after three hours rushing work on holy Sab bath morn year of our Lord and we have not yet had time to have family prayers and I write with both elbows stickingout of my peniten tiary coat and not knowing how amrto get my next coat unless they send me to the penitentiary again youbrethrlChristians the chance to laugh at us and say that it takes an appeal to all the Infidels of America to raise the little f balance of when a mere boy preach er in Lexington who Is a patron of the Lexington race bores association can turn his nose at a salary of 15000 a year and an Assistant does all the work while his boss plays billiards and goes to horse races and marries Camp belllte scrubooracy with a lot of ginger anyn jjr r i 1 a r II 11 BLUE GRASS BMDEIProm Lexington Lender PROFUREHANTa- unts the Heathen Editor With the Hopelessness of the Atheistic Doctrine Editor LEADER Since Charley Moore accepts It as a compliment to hI th ablest Atheist In America will hI liberal enough to extend the statement But one greater ever lived Hi ron De Holhach was not an out and out Atheist IT Rosseau was not an out out Atheist Voltaire was simply a seal fer through spite Tom Paine was much under the Influence of Benjamin Franklin to fight against social and pc iitl cal progress to be an avowed Atheist The greatest and the fairest Atheist that history records was Robert Owns He was fair In this He constructed o endeavored to construct a substitute Christianity that Robert Owen not want to take away anything fret any human thing without giving thai human being something in the place of It However hall his medicine have always had a profound respect for the man He published a challenge to the clergy of the whole world The clergy of England Ireland Scotland and Wall swallowed the pill gracefully but In hit mlllatlng derision at his hands H crossed the Atlantic with the chalieng ahead of him The Becchcrs and Tat mages of the era swallowed it Alexan der Campbell met this victorious hero- In Cincinnati The vicious dogma of No God broke down Cumpliell spoke for hours at a time without reply and Owen fighting gamely at times died with out the reputation of a logician Jesuit Nazareth holds good as the author or 1life and salvation the author of light elevation and human development am Mr Moore can not prove that Contu rims the original author of the golden rule Confucius may have stolen it am quoted It he Is not the only one win has done so Every one of Robert Owens fundamental rules or laws of human nature are true and every one of them accounts for the existence of God but how and whence I dare Mr Moore to account for it except by the first verse of the Bible The Idea of a God has always been In the world and can be accounted for only as sate It Is not a vagary of the human mind the human mind never originated It Let any decent scholar show any faculty of the mind all the fatuities capable of the origina tion and will join Charley Moore morrow Memory cannot do judg went cannot do It Imagination cannot touch It Reason Is entirely too short 1r the job There a freedom of the will a power and elasticity about pro testantism that Is daring and attractive but on Its own merits it too short for natures providence and redemption and so Is Charley Moore and all the little- shallow satellites of Atheism Irratlona negation never built up any thing nor can It Newton found nothing in it Herschel found nothing In It Jolt Kelsey found nothing In It Frederick the Great found nothing In It Napoleon found nothing In It Washington found t nothing In It Columbus nothing James frrsusuu found ttothlng e l ieneltherdid Robert Burns Tom Moore Daniel OConnor Abraham Lincoln William McKinley Sir Franets Drake Allan Ramsey the Scotch poet Richelieu Lady Mary Wortley Montague Gutten herg Faust nor Coligny There Is not a vaulable aid to human progress that can be traced to Atheism go for Gods sake shut up or put up I am too full for utterance on this subject and afraid of no Atheistic talent It N GREHAN HEATHENS REPLY Editor Moore Retorts to the Answer Of Prof Grehan Quokeracre April E M Editor LEADERHave just finished reading Prof Grehans Come Back In your issue of April 21 All things come to those who wait certain to do so It you wait long enough For years I have sought a re ligious discussion with some competent Lexington man I wanted to debate the question of the existence of a God While I would gladly have met any gyman of gocd standing In your city preferred a nonprofessional religionist There is not a man In the town that for this purpose I would have preferred to Prof Grehan He and were educated at the same college He some years before me Ho has for years been a professional edu cator and has been superintendent the public schools of this county and your city His reputation asa gentleman is absolutely untarnished and his son on the staff of your paper has long been my friend Every consideration of pol icy and expedience If no higher motive I should betconservatli tlanddlkiuloan I be lieve I will be If Prof Grehan Is not both of these It will be his loss and my evidently Appreciates that logical ly the burden of proof Is on him For young readers I will explain that this means that I do not have to prove that there Is no God but simply to an swer Prof Gs arguments that there is a the word God with a capl tat Jnltlal simply In compliance with typographical usage and not because the word arouses any more reverence in me than the words angel devil ghost witch hobgoblin or rabbit foot In Prof Gs first article that ranked me superior to Voltaire and Ingersoll I blushed so audibly that you might have heard It over the telephone but I made no protest But now we are coming to hard pan facts and buncomb and blarney dont count It Is simply absurd to say that I am the greatest atheist who ever lived except Robert Owen The statement is absurd gen and the exception Is nhsudr peciallY The Professor really meant to say that I was the greatest atheist that ever specially struck Lexington have been a student of Infidel lit era ure In which Include the Bible for forty years slid Robert Owen ptopagandlstsHesect to which Prof Grehan belong Known variously as Christians ciples and Carapbellltes simply cause he had a debate with Alexande Campbell a good old superstition Scotchman with a fair modicum of the learning of his day and country an whom it is scarcely possible that Pro Grehan could have loved as Intimately and devotedly as I have done ever since first knew him at my own home and soon after as the honored guest of hlg home claim to know Alexander Camp hell more Intimately than Hvhi man outside of his own family and ologically to know him better than any member of his family does Alexande Campbell educated me classically and theologically and ordained me to the ministry when was hardly twentyone oillcinlly pronouncing and announcing mo then competent to teach theology have read yea studiedwith great care every page of the voluminous hate between him and Owen All that the two knew combiner would not now matte a starter In Inn argument Campbell made no argument and there Is not an Infidel paper In the world that today would print the tommy rot that Owen got off The great Infidels of the world are such ns Shelly Byron Shakespeare hums Hume Bollngbroke Gibbon Volncy Leckey Draper Bruno Galileo Magellan Spinoza Darwin Huxley Haeckel Spencer Mill Tyndall Vol taire Paine Von Humboldt Jefferson Franklin Girard Lincoln Ingersoll Ed Ison Tolstoi Carnegie LI Hung Chant anti Wn Ting Fang With these men compare about an oldfashioned tallow candle wonli with the electric tower at the Buffalt PanAm While I highly appreciate the Pro cssors compliment must Insist that business Is business Neither Paine nor Franklin were ever approximately atheists Paine said believe in God and one Voltaire was a scoffer so was tin Bible writer who said The fool hath said In his heart there Is no God Prof Grehan says The vicious dog ma of No God broke down The lan guage Is Inaccurate A dogma must ex necessitate be an affirmation not a neg lion There Is a God Is a dogma The words There no God cannot he a dogma What Professor wants to say plain English that the belief that there no God makes a man vicious He says that I am the greatest atheist liv ing I am an atheist Just as good as my natural abilities will allow me to be and wish were greater Prof Grehan has Intimately known me ever since was an accepted and loved minister In Ills church about forty years If am a vicious man he knows that I am and demand of him that he shall plainly write In answer to this challenge any md all evidences of my viciousness he must put up or shut up and when he Is talking about sober matters he must nqt get too full for utterance That Jesus Christ Is the author of light elevation acid development Is simply assertion Is answered by my assertion that he Is not There Is not in any department of morals art science the latter nt trbTHby geography boti HMoology geol fy cosmology chlnology jr In one of all the other ologles and Ismsa gle fact for the knowledge of which we are Indebted to Jesus Confucius was born 651 years before Jesus of Nazareth and died be fore Jesus of Nazareth was born and is a common thing men do not steal things from men who are born years after them Confucius said Do another what you would not have him do to you Jesus saidIn substance Do to another what you would have him do to you The followers of Je sus say Do the other fellow If you dont he will do you In theology as In nearly all else the star of empire was Westward and all true morals like the Magi came from the East to Palestine Neither Confucius nor Jesus covered the whole ground In the golden rule it took them both and Jesus simply mpplemented the main Idea that Cot uclus had announced Prof Grehans words dare Mr Moore to account for It except by the first verse of the Bible mean nothing because the neuter noun it has no correlative or antece fact that every body believes a thing does not make It so At time every including all writers- of the Bible believed the world was lat Galileo the Infidel said It was round and the Christians sent him to the Ohio penitentiary for denying the Bible but It panned out round all the same Noah was a Campbelllte pr c- herhad a head for water and for years he preached that there was going to be an extra big rain Nobody believ- him and every hotly guyed himI vhlle he was building his ark and said Hello old boy tis awful dry when that rain coming But It got horeI same and Noah werethem only people awer011nitike swim 0 no everybody dont believe there Is a GoilI dont dont near But ac cording to the Professor I am an Intel lectual giant The Professor then enumerates a long list of men who he says novcd found my good In Atheism Granted then what of It There Is a large lot of us who never found any gold In California hut that does not prove that there Is no gold there Both sides of this discussion will be mbllshed In my paper and I hope the Professor will not got too full to up his enil of it Fraternally yours CHARLES C MOORE Im es er Qittln There Elias The wife of a lawyer who Is now gaged In the Rice millionaire murder cafe In New York and who Is the son of n Confederate General who lives a thousand miles from here is now vis Jug in Kentucky She said to me I end a gentleman say Paine and Inger fioll are gone and Moore of Kentucky Is now the greatest living man of their way of thinking Better get a move on yourself Mack OIt out of that 3 biz and go to pub shlng an uptodate Infidel newspaper for a year If you want to keep up with the baud wagon r DEAD TALMAGE AND DEAD INI GERSOLL Talmago and Ingereoll were resu timely the most distinguished Chrlst1m and the most distinguished Infidel In America Nothing can better Illustrate cadence of Christianity than the way In which the American press viewed the deaths of these two men There was hardly a paper of any standing in the United States that did not have something kind to say of Ingersoll at his death and do not remember to have seen that any such paper had nnythl unkind to say of him On the other hand among the very first papers in America there Is much that Is said disparaging about Talma give some of these that lave been re printed In the CourierJournal I1IPY are as follows A Great Money Maker In his prime Talmage Is said to have made more money than the Preside of the United States It is not dlsput that he made more than any other clergyman In the world His salary from his Brooklyn congregation waS 12000 a year From a single firm he recleved 10000 a year for his sermon As editor of a religious paper he ceived 5000 more and his lectur brought him large returns On one oc casiou he refused an offer of 50000 for a series of lectures because It would Interfere with a proposed trip to Eu Talmage once boasted that he could make 1000 a day It was at ono time estimated that he was worth t 000000 but his friends said that his wealth was only a quarter of that situ Much of his money he Invested In Brooklyn mortages Chicago Inter Ocean The Crosby Charges The Rev Arthur Crosbys charges against Dr Talmage were broukht fore the Brooklyn Presbytery In February 1879 Dr Talmage accused of falsehood deceit and Im proper methods In preaching tend- Ing to bring religion Into repute The specifications were as fol lowsFirstDeceit and falsehood In the matter of his withdrawal from the torship of the Christian at Work In Oc tuber 187- 0SecondCausing false statements to be made In defense of his actions in nection with the withdrawal Third Saying falsely tliat the Tab ernacle was a free church when It wi not Fourth Falsely charging the Rev L W Hathaway In the whiter of with dishonesty and ten denyln the jFifth false scriptions to the Tabernacle in 1878 In order to Induce others to Subscribe Sixth Speaking deceitfully as to re engaging the Tabernacle organist kSeveathPubliclyand falsely stat log from his pulpit on Sunday Februar 1879 that he was to be Ied for het erodoxy when he knew hej was to bo tried for falsehood deceit pmaching iite trat amP 5t ttii utar ea vii of not guilty was c red 25 t The majority for acquit was letget- on the other charges TalmageI salary was then 12000 a earNev York Herald NofDellveredWhen mons he prepared them a iek or twi In advance as he had to d to suppl the presses In time And wI n he wen to Europe and the Holy id he sole his sermons before he left New York They were printed as have g come cable One was printed on a Monday morning as having been livered at Queenstown whence Mr Tal nage sallei on the preceding Saturday and after Mr Talmage got here he that It had never been ac1nowledgedI The Holy Land to sensation and the story was sent over here that an American had met him there and asked the preacher to baptize in the Jordan which Mr Tulmage according to his own story did do But In Brooklyn Mr Talmages enemies said that he had caught a tramp on the Kink and ducked him In Russia Mr Talmage was received by the Czar In his story of that meet- Ing he said asked the Czar as many uestions as he asked me The most serious attack made upon him In England was by the Rev Joseph arker who said that after delivering a emperance lecture Mr Talmage drank vine with his meal New York Sun Publicity of His Sermons One of the most Ingenious plans to se cure a wide usefulness for his sermons Was adopted by Mr Talmage In nection with Louis Klopsch of the hrIst fan Herald The sermons wer pul Info in advance tc aminetseonnewspapem In the United States simultaneous lication on a given day By this means eaders of journals having an aggregate Irculatlon of millions had before them ach week the vivid thrilling pulpit ut urancns of Brooklyn preacher- It was urged against this scheme that most of the newspapers printed the matter as telegraph prefacing It with a line or Introduction and a Brooklyn date tins conveying to their readers the rcsslon that wire tolls had been paid In other words that the paper had dlsI layed a lot of enterprise in getting matter which Impression was false and mislead In The answer of Dr Tal lages supporters was that he had ever countenanced the deception but that the whole effect of the publication was good in spite of it Brooklyn Eagle JGERSOLL AND LIQUOR Washington D C April 17 1902 My Dear Mopre J see that you are inning as a sort of a standing ad that splendid utterance of Col Inger concerning that damned stuff called alcohol About four years ago I saw the au thelutterllnceto rig waR straight Roods I hate before III Colonels reply in Ills own linn writing It simply roads Pear SitThe above clipping Is correct It Is a part of a speech dollvin by me In the Muun trial at Chicago In Yours truly R G INGERSOLL In this connection it might bo well to reproduce a letter of Prof T H Hllx ley Ingersolls prime friend and Slip porter on this same subject In a letter addressed to Mr E T Col lings of Bolton England in ISSn Prol Huxley sail Dear SlrI understand that you aRk me what I think about alcohol as a stimulant to the brain In mental worl Speaking for myself and perhaps I may add tot persons of my temper meat can say without hesltatio THAT WOULD JUST AS SOON TAlm DOSE OF ARSENIC AS I WOlID OF ALCOHOL under such clrcui stances Indeed on the whole SHOULD THINK THE ARSEN tSAFER LESS LIKELY TO LEAD 10 PHYSICAL AND MORAL DEGRADATION It would be better to die Ollt right than to be alcoholized hefme a man canot do brain work with out stimulants of any kind he had het ter turn to haul workIt Is an Indie tlon of natures part that she did not mean him to be a hard worker Now neither Col Ingersoll nor Pro Huxley were Ironclad total abstainer Occasionally each took a nip rot the same reason that we occasionally tale a dash of vinegar on bolted cabbage because It tastes good nut hlth these men were too honest to declare that the stuff did them any good when they and evrybody else knew that it did a positive harm Both these mun hind brains enough to know that ar drug that makes one feel good for an hour and gives you a headache all tbo next day Is a positive Injury no matter whether the stuff be technically a food or a poison The ethical standards of both these men were In the clouds above the creatures who Ilready to open saloons In order to wax fat In purse off the weaknesses vice s and misery of their fellowmen People who call themselves thinkers and who sit up nights to praise the virtues of alcohol are lIot freethinkers at for two reasons 1 In nlnteen cases out of n bundrei they are not free at all hilt IIchained body boots and breeches to lite skeleton of appetite 2 Titer are not even thinkers for the reason that anybody who thinks knows that the beverage of alcohol Is an Injury to every one who uses It The best thought In the Infidol worl today Is dead set against drink and fh Infernal saloon The best thought In the Infidel world Is death set against impurity and for the Bnuctity of mat tinge The sooner the movement as n movement measures up ito the high ideal of its best prophetsi the sooner will Minyiel more universal respect f JV E JOHNSON Comment Bro Johnson Is tltc Wash Install correspondent of The Voice or Prohibition pape H the world he th ith wherr jall1 tisflnougnt the Infidel world today Is dead sv Valnst drink and the Infernal saloon TWO MRS MALONEYS 8r OMahony ii Lexington Is n verted Irishman Ie talks American regularly butwhen he wants tohec- an beat the band talking Irish Doc says Mrs Maloney an Irish man had a son going to the Catholic school and lie swore so awfully that the priest went to see Mrs Malone bout It and Mrs Maloney said with Lstonlshment to the priest Well lams Christ wher In the dlvll till that jy learen to schwear Is11Ialoneyvery poor old woman was standing on the cornet ofa street near my office and as I came tip she said Is this Mr Moore 1IrslMaloney voice Will you give me one of your 11lOaldwant a Blade and you are coming bj the office just step In and Mr Hughes will give you one Then she said Six years ago I used to take your paper I lived at the house of educated gentleman who had been a Catholic and he read your and ho got to be of your way of thinking and got to reading It too and I found a great many good things In It and the other day some of us saw In your hater where you said a priest who had lived In this town was the father of n iaby And then tolsemItaLastm- the nd slsaid of the baby was a nice girl tooIBut It was not the priest ig about at all so It seems are others 100 NEW SUBSCRIBERS Moultrle Ga Apill 1902 AMES E HUGHES Lexington Ky Dear Sir Enclosed find 20 to pay lor 100 Blades for six mouths each he addressed as follows Hoping to tnus help and encourage the in Its mlslon of usefulness am Yours tluly GEO W McCORMICK GOIN WID OLE MARSTER On Sunday morning April was finta110upesns In the good old slave times wah watt starting out front his abln- In our yard to go Hulling My wllo sahi- to him Jlnit are not afraid you will go to hell If you fish on Sunday Jim tall Ole Mars will go too atll- lIm wlllin to go whnr he do Verily say unto you I have not found so great faith no not In Israel pJ Dally Between Chicago and Hot ICars Botwoon Chicagoone 46800 Subscribed for tile Linotyp Up to April 30 At the time wrlto this March lins been subscribed on the amount of that ask for to make the IIrst payment on a llnotypo machine ll vlng that nun pay tho balance In Instalments that are allowed If more than title Is subscribed its the time this goes to press fur Blade of March SI largo figures at tho top of this account will 00 changed to fiho the amount Of course cannot tell any hotter than lanyofynu can whothor or not I will gut tho guess that my chances iiro about ovon one out of two If get that am going to star on the very next day on my effort to got X000 readers for tho Blade In Urn years If live with the 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TRAINS uITwuiSN Louisville and St LouisPa- rlor Cars Trains Pullman Sleepers on Night Trains For ami further information address L J IRWIN p ITHE Fi1OM- NATI T- O1NO1NAPOLIS AND CHICAGO With direct connection for all points In the WEST AND NORTHWESTm TO r DAYTON TOLEDO AND DETROIT With direct connections for points In MICHIGAN AND CANADA Vestibuled Trains Cafe Dining Service- Compilrtment Sleepers If you expect to make a trip auk ticket gents for rates via the C H D or address the undcrHlgned for anylparticulars you may desire- D EDWARDS Passenger Traffic Manager Cincinnati t A 1 rkp I BLUE GRASS BLADE I TALMACEIS DEAD MAY HEnEST IN PEACE lie had no peace of mind while lh Ills always busy sending people whom nature had not framed to think as lie thought to nn everlasting ago nizing hell Now that ho has gone to that blest nbodu of saints prepared before the foundations of tho world for such as he only It may ho ho will simmer down anti keep a quiet consistent with the Infinite peace of his ecstatic sur r ron ml Ings lIe hits gone to his reward the re ward which ho himself llxed for him self lie hits his mansion the great llInlltn able caravan of the dent have their hell Unfortunately nature tilt not mould them after him lIe Is happy lIe has won the prize because he was better than ninetenths of humanity Ho was more charitable more benevolent more selfsacrific log more patient more enduring more loving more forgiving1 more meet and modest than the great mass of mankind Where ho has gone they cannot go because they are not like unto him They are forever banished from the bliss of his bright smile andt ladtant companionship Ho judged and they judged not Herein they were not wise If men and women were aso wideawake and alive to their everlasting Interests as they should bed they would drop their employments and all turn preachers and judges for of suca Is the kingdom of heaven Talmage was so much better than the general run of humanity that he deserves the reward of an everlasting bliss and the perpetual lease of a mansion of alabaster and pearl amethyst onyx and chalcedony The only re gretable thing about this Is that since the last shall be judged first he Is not likely to come into full possession of his heavenly estate for a few million a years Poor fellow He worried himself fearfully while living about the beliefs of other people His grief was always Intensified because so many refused to follow him and to pay him for telling them what he thought they ought to think lteragei1and despaired and poured tka volume of adjectives and word iftlclent to drown a coat fopjtnlled to Incline the un hi seriously Iliim he a and brimstone from his t volcano In quantities which would drive Vesuvius and Popocata pMal envious with rage still the tionskeptthe even tenor of their ways utterly regardless of the wrath to he has gone alas like the many who have bloomed and blossomed in tropical Christendom who have literally thrown away their lives picturing It the Joys of heaven and the agonies of up hell and In fretting over the Indisposition of to take their certifi ticatesr hmTheman and as such let us consider him I have always clammed that the last imfinaltomoneyspends his money and how ho dis cmchargesa man be honest In this respect and It matters but little what his religious or Irreligious belief may be p That Talmage preached for mooney and that ho was and selfish to tothemanagers lately said In public print nithattrhimv ironbound contract and even then there was always trouble If the audi ences were smal and the manager u n loser Talmage nothing to saye But It the audiences were large il tlthemoney and that ho ought to have more than he was getting lie luau ab solutely no respect for his contract and frequently hla manager had toto give him a percentage of his profits tosu keep him from throwing up on it alto gether But he was never willing toam chip in for tile managers lossesgIf this be true itls enough for muteas Talmage always commanding a great salary and a largo lectuio Income b brazenly berated Ingersoll for preach In ing for money Ingersoll drew twopl thousand dollars houses and ho only two hundred anti the difference galled to himhelie did not hesitate In other partic the ulars to misrepresent Ingersoll anti even to lie openly about him Ho novu er fairly represented or quoted scienti tic and Agnostic leaders If he re ferred to Darwin or Spencer he would a quote their opinions of forty or fifty as years ago and not their recent clusions He would detach some of their statements from their connect- Ing ideas and thus endeavor to deceive tic bid hearers by making It appear that r j L5P they indornod Christianity by their own words Ho would sort out pick out and twist scientific propositions to suit his theological tenets He was tho persistent foe of evolution and every new luea that dill not accord with the ciudo opinions of the Bible writers And no matter how much and how long he fought a new discovery when It once necame generally accept ed he would brazenly declare It a Christian discovery and In perfect aci cord with scrlpturcs Intellectually Talmage was without a conscience lIe would pervert the truth and enlarge a lie whon ever It suited piirposes Ho played upon emotions of mon antI women by appealing to thtlr superstitions fears and prejudices lIe was u master at wordpainting which Ignorant mis took for wisdom and logic Ho was a lower garden u cloudsoarur and a skyscraper He carried his hearers high up and set them down entranc lug realms of enraptured bliss lie made them feel good and they liked He lifted tnem off earth and stood them among angels nnd for a brief spell allowed them to feel the pressure of quo crown upon their brows smell the nosegays of heaven and finger tutu harp of a thousand strings lIe spent his whole life picturing contemplating and howling about some other life Never once did he turn to the great social problems which muTed his life Kingdom Come and Crowns nod Glo ry and Jeweled Mansions tend hosannas f the Heavenly Host contrasted with the sulphurous tlames and agonizing and moans and shrieks of the Irretrievably damned was the one monumental thought of his monstrous mind The vital questlonsnffecttng this life the social reforms the SingleTax Proposition Municipal Ownership Trusts Child Lahor Woman Suffrage Stlrplculture Stock Gambling and the purity of the ballot were of little or no nterest to him This life was only to be despised Heaven was his home Stave the body and feed the soul that saint may be made was his one teach- Ing If poverty demoralized tile misses why poverty should be accepted as a blessing for was not Christ poor and the apostles po raud have ye not the poor with ye alway to This doctrine however did not apply to himself When he published a book le bargained for the biggest royalty When he preached and lectured he ooked Out for bargains The Christ he worshipped preached for nothing He commanded from one to three hundred dollars a night for lecturing anti soine mea houses were so poor that his manager or the society which employed him suffered a loss but did he divide tbe 10ssP Not he He entered Into a contract with asyn dicate of newspapers to print his serlmons From this source he derived anbImmense incometiHe was a Christian He was literally soaked with Christian love and charity oozed put of every pore lIe stored whole vats of divine sweat and sold the precious elixir at the highest price He always a place to lay his lmeatlim le best the earth could afford now instructing Jesus how deficient in business siithbooks Income from the newspa er syndicate ho made from twenty forty thousand dollars a year Fluela mlmlIncome at thousand hmAboutmmmlywhich he had grossly mnisreimresentedth and lied about to r of the Enquirer Ho refused to print It not because of lack of truth nutribut because It would offemuiltimmuti uth would offend In commo imlYoimdont you know that Talmage Is doing mro for Freethought than you can hulhttmernhlsmmmusands lie Is biggest ilniIn the country and one of timeth most grasping and avaricious men himla the pulpit He Is out for stuff like racist of them and this Is Imlainiml every ono who looks deeper rface While he mystifies many and lyn strengthens thorn in their prejudices id superstition his evident fanaticism roeti and hypocrlcy opens tho eyes of many others It Is just like icmtentI medlclneHj a great many people want e fooled Wo put their advertisement our paper for money In It and to thu ease class of tools and likewise print Talmogo for the money Iii It and ly his class A mitrpeople what they want you know lllero you have the secret of Talmagos ccess Ho knew how to reach norant mob lIe was a bigger fraud than the thousands of others who make commercialism of Christianity he knew how to jostle and fool crowd only as an angler Is skilled In getting suckers to grab at his bait As to talmages private and domesst life I never heard anything to lila detriment and It I did know anything I would say nothing about It Hla public life only should he property He was married three time which would Indicate his bejlet that God only joins people for this life and death here minders them If marriage Is sacred why should It not be for all time as well as now Criticism Is fair only when both sides are given It will be Interesting there fore to give the views of the great lellglous papers upon the career of Mr Talmage s The Independent N Y says Ho was the typical sensational preacher having tho merits and faults of Ills class doing sonic nilsriillanioiiB good leaving behind him no purmaiicnt value of Influence Tho Congregatlonnllat Boston Ho drew largo audleiicua using sun Rational methods Ho found a ready market for his sermons which were prepared to appear as extemporaneous utterances sold m advance to a syndicate of newspapers Tho Christian Advocate N says of his pulpit methods lie wan extraordinary and spectacular u montebaiik and moro verbal trick stir Other Christian journals express Iko utterances tho majority of course credit him with sincere con victions and deep piety and as hay ng done more good titan any preacher of his time The general public do not know that when he went to the Holy Land he hall prepared his sermons before lell ling and sold them to newspapers They appeared regularly In many pa pert In the United States every Momul day morning announced as hmavlmmi been received fresh by cable just as they were delivered In Jerusalem Nazareth and other placeshHe titus permitted himself to come a party to a lie and such action t tends to confirm the truth of theI charges made against Win by his ownI Presbytery of LYING This was twentyfive years ago and now gotten by most people In tho trial which took place charges wore not sustained Charges of any kinda against preachers evan plain cases of wifekilling seldom are sustained But n this case against Talmagethe final vote was nearly equally dividedas nearl perhapS as a Presbytery ever comes convicting a preacher For heresy for expressing an honest thought a Presbytery Jump all over a prot a sumptuous parson but such Inconse quentol offenses Jhs LYING nORG ERY SEDUCTION and WIFE ILL ING seldom trouble the ministerial conscience J It la most TWnarkable that aVtfian can stand so prominently beforcjha public for years retaining Its rconfl deuce and respect doing all the time very things he preached against preaching the beauties of truth and ove of enemies while lying himself y misrepresenting and vllllfylng preaching the blessings of poverty as seen in Christ and the Fishermen while massing riches ofl his own raging against the moneychangers while pooling his sermons giving them to the people been dellvoied In Jerusalem when they were not Talmages will just made public that he left an estate of a 800000aTalmageism and Dowlelsm are limitw examples of the religious bunco going on all the time Millions of ullars are filched from the people It rough tho belief that the words antI riers of a preacher make sacred the mrriage tie Tens of millions are like 0 ise annually stolen for masses for e repose of the souls of vthe death UnIknown and tiiicountable millions are dumped Into the hands of the clergy r money by the Inculcation of fear of an Imaginary hell Many Uter religious holdups as bold and as daylight highway robbery are atle all tho lime and still the slickers few years after going to Brooklyn diiirch burned to ground larger ono having the capacity of hmoumois church burned to the ground stillw rger church seating 5000 was erected years after this church was com etei3 destroyed by lire and the hIresh getting too hot for him ho quit and went to Washington It was singular that none of these churches met with destructlouIt tiitwere completely dostlOyeda Tho origin of fires was never known Some mao attributed them to of carelessness of Jehovah whoso at tention hall been directed too exclusive to birdgazing anti halt counting Other rude and profane people attrib tti the cause to the failure of tho mmiilito ventilate the church utter Talmages rid hot sermons the gen eral torrtdlty confined within causing spontaneous combustion In all Christendom uieeuinted with so much helltire and Hosan as these and just why God should of have neglected or withheld hla fostering It care over them Is ono of those mnysterli ious lUspesatlons of Providence imathia been given to the sceptic to under amidsIn some respects Taltrjago was n great man There uas something lu ills l makoup which Impressed and Iethe common anti average mind flteu was a superior something about him have ennabkd him to command attention What was It It was not personel magnetism nor oratory nor loglcf nor Intellectual pre dominance lie was neither teacher thinker Investigator nor discoverer He trod the beaten path He lived tho dead past and In dreams of a fantastical powerIn of the quack advertiser whose success depends not upon the virtue of his drugs but rather upon his harrowing descriptions of disease and Its blighting effect fol lowing the Kime with sweet und sooth- Ing songs of italic and the most eloquent Intoxicating assurance that he and he only can cure when nIl others fall People like to ho led Into despair and then snatched out of hal would drop bin llutonerfi In to tho lowest hell nnd then snatch gIOlAnllTherein lily his power In all per niiaaho power of speech Syllables govern the wOlldJIlls was same powfr which made Milton Young and Pollock great In their day the power to depict hor rom and despairs of hell In contrast with till joys and exultations of heaven No ono reads either of these three poets today They are remembered ly fur here nnd therea stray ode or anIapostrophe or a lilt of tine descriptive verse touching some view of natureITheir heaven and hell and spirits eeI estlal goblins damned and embat tied hosts no longer sway the mind of But for a long time they with Jryden Dante other morbid mum hlers of their kind held literary su premacy over the world proving most conclusively the power of language es pecially when eloquence throws Its charm over tho unknowable the mysterloim the superstitious the appalling dreamful anti the mramllslcaiga o Milton Pollock and Dante He couldlmale heaven as enchanting and lot even hotter than timeyeSo vivid and lurid ions that It would seem that ho must have visited both places and saw what ie described The architecture of heaven was hla hobby He never tired of telling of the grandeur and composition of the man sions and never failed to specify the precious metals stones and Jewels entered Into their construction nti hotf they shone In the luminous light of the throne b And It just made every one feel goods all over to think that they were o live ft meter In beautlfiil mansions It ght jus like he described And It fur icr d to their exhlleratlon and ecstasy b hear him describe the an gelic has iiand their entrancing flightstmlctfalr hosannahs irone fere sltteth the Lamb and the apostles fod patriarch and all the HE iieep wl walked with God Ami thu crystal r Yrs which flowed without a wave scintillated like concentrated starlight and the flowers which grew Up n Muyr banks were so brilliant exotic tnat only an angel couldf look up on thfeW nnd mnell them and live t and the manslona and temples xnultl udinuous rose terrace upon terrace f their walls built of alabaster jasper couftless1l0mesamonds Jiapphtrea emeralds and the least of which was bigger than light house And myriad towers of solid s nshlne pierced the infinite t azuro around these mighty col umns wound stairs of bright blue ight extracted from the llghtnlns flash arid far far up their dazzling steps hfjsts of angels Each brighter far Than tower or stair Unceasing sang Hosannah to the Highest Illuminations at Buffalo were not circumstance The above extrava thancaWhat religiously led mind but bo carried away with such elo quence and dreaming and celestial wordpainting hits trick was to get u them under the spell of ills speech and of then became easy to get their money and praise Yes there lay his power the power tSwordstIme charm ot expression ogle and common sense never count a poetry and painting that Is Itii common herd- do not mean to condemn Talmago tiortin of this myself but stop when p reach the stars do not go beyond b the vtable and the knowable But Talihage punctured the Infinite and painted the Blest Beyond Beauty Is legitimate everywhere and especially In speech1 Let us garland our minds with the beautiful with the lieautuul things we see In this life Hut let It be only Iou the sake of the Beautiful not to deceive and mystify throwing acluarnk over superstition et me go among the clover and iits of boyhoods blissful June Let tno gather tilt harebell and picture babys eyes Let me pluck the wild all ose dream again of early love lieers antI call to memory mother dear Let the roses of speech garland this up life let them adorn It now us not throw nil our bouquets at angels By his wordpaintings Ruskln lifted lt to a higher pinnacle of rec la tlonile wrote of the beautiful things this life and art tied from the unnct uary and took to tho llelite By his wordpaintings Ingersoll threw a charmed robe round peasant lovers as hand lu hand they wandered oer the vlneclnd hills This he transformed Into u glorified lie palace by the latticeshadow which checkered the cradled babe within He dill nut spend his time picturing the angels and mansions beyond the gatea hut the loves of this life and the lu the heart of man And It was title love and expression the beautiful In Nature and Human y which strengthened und ennobled speech of Ruskin and Ingersoll which too was the secret of their and power And this too was the ecret of Talmages power But unlike them he painted super nature not what be saw but what ha t rumwMJ thQethoIehlfnddled tot11nndhAHtterest to human welfare and standing Warped with prejudice an superstition their minds narrowed ant contracted by a stupid Illogical un scientific belief most clergymen do the best they know how and are hon est In their alms anti purposes nnd for such have respect But Talmage never tried to tell truth It was not In him to represent elthtr science and unbelief fairly and honestly About these he would lie outright Not only this but he would uhiiHe and vllllfy and call naniea and exaggerate In fact lie exaggerated In everything Ills pictures of heaven wore no greater exaggeration than his misrepresentations of unbelief Some yearo ago read In one of KermoiiH In which he Was lashing some of the wkkod thiKe wommlsf think can hear their horses hoofs clattering down the plains of Hell Just pause In your chuckle ami con template the vlmlletlveness Intolerance and morbidity of mind which could conceive such a thought and paint such a picture Even horses lu hell Talmage a mind of great com irbheiiBlon and explored the literature art anllIhlstory of the past but closed his thoughts to the developments of the present lie wuulllI not Investigate science and conflicting beliefs nor tolerate oppOHltlori lie could talk Intelligently UpOIlI nearly every thing except religion this one he evidenced allf thlslsubjoctdlctlve Inhuman exaggerative sensa1 unreasoning fantastical sand preposterous But all these Joined to and emotionalism catch the aiting crowd I have been told by those who met In private that he was a most harming conversationalist affableIasy to approach full of reminiscence and even broad and erant in his religious talk This was Talmage In private In public he was another manmThere Is no MONEY ness and tolerance We Liberals that out Greenbacks dont grow on liberal hmisheswTimers noman so wind sensational ell tihatantand damned humanity for ins which nature has Imposed upon and made unavoidable as this man Talmage nor one who has made so ouch money out of hla mouthlngs It always seemed to me that Talrnnge 7dlseThe change will be sudden He cant rage antI damn any more There are no storms there nothing but aromatic zephyrs and hell surely go crazy when about liHewhile living It wont be any novelty s 0 him when he gets there Of course t will be a pleasing diversion for a ew thousand years talking to Abe and Iose and Dave ant Dan and Pete and Paul and the many others whose teach ngs inspired hisr caloric contributions a to hmPutto associate with mmimeTfcftte there Is a touch of sadness inw he misspent life of this man Un mlanced he was undoubtedly Hev alked so long upon the one I belloelhismind especially if that faculty be an emotional onesuch as the religious IstJ IIaiRedfaculty you see a onesided man Front is tendency moot clergymen are ot more or less off Mental equlllbrum ependa upon diversity of thought and avoidance of morbid emotionalism lion the exhlleratlon and stimulation discovery rather than sacred herence to tho antiquated soul worn out Here we see a man of really greatL talents clIiiKluj to the crnol barbarous ago arresting tho mind ot childhood and chaining it to the past directing their thoughts to some other lire Instead of preparing them for the- uutles and responsibilities of this life with and emII liitterhuigntolerance Such and crueltyh3me Is a sad spectacle It Is nil tight of Heuven and con of 13emplatefor those we have loved and lost but we cannot add to their hnpplnesa we can do them no good why bother jout them on the luxury of their imheThis life Is here and Ignorance and disease and despair anti Injustice about us and millions have no luabo itations and starved eyes never oner How can any sane mind wrap Itself In ecstasy und exultation over tue bliss of angels In heaven when this earth Is choked with sorrowing ones who should hold the kindred claim upon every person of superior talents Had Talmage turned his ents to social economical and gov ermental problems which affect humanity today hud he pictured the heaven that could be made on this earth by simple justice between man and man had ho raged against militarism and the purchase and enslavement of men had damned stock gambling trusts audItho corruption of ballot hail loudly advocated the enfranchisement of women ecclesiastical as well as pollt leal hall he everlastingly advocated the gospel of health and the morals of good breeding ho would have added to the glory and good and happiness ot this life and Justly the reward of another But he didnt do this Ho Just preached Jesus and Him crucified and made all e money lie could out of It lived n such luxury anti adulation tiers that why he should ever want to go to heaven Is beyond my understanding would not Intentionally do Injus f II tlco to any man living or dead I do not want to be and I hope havo not boon uncharitable In thus commenting upon tho life of Mr Tnlrnage He was a gospelforIda opinions and himself to the public profuseinIdthe dead Therefore feel privileged tolj1mOl it was because Talmage himself was amusing And say it In all seriousness menn Ing no disrespect to him nor offense toIhis friends that THE WORLD IS WORSE FOiL HIS HAVING LIVED IN HEtThere Is only ono redeeming thing connected with the teachings of his im feeling corrupt and demoralizing doc extravaganceayperhule judgment Inconsistency sensationalism and conceit often had the opposite ef openingJleading thousands Into the ranks o Rationalism But the harm ho did out weighed the good nnd the world bet off without him However he serves for a useful les son No other preacher In all the world has been given such newspaper attention awl It Is significant that In propor tion to tho advertleement glen him and Moody and Sam Jones and all that sen Bfitlpnal class of Christian ranters Ag nostlclsin arid other Liberal views have correspondingly gained entry Into the pr IEveryihingagainst Evolution Infidelity Atheism Socialism have advanced with giant strides He died a playedout man He Illstedtmuch longer than Jones whose y coarsescolding and liellflrednesa was of brief duration These examples should be a lesson to Christian teachers revealing to them that something more than abuse and Bocinl ostracism and the threat of future punishment and sanctified quackery and mystified mummery Is essential to capture this Intelligent age and hold It for Christ and themselves And after all his publishing of booka and preaching and lecturing and news paper advertisement what has Tal wrlten or said that will be remembered Nothln He stood for angels Henry George t for men And without having rittemi the one thousandth part ofthe matter written by Talmagehe will live be loved In hearts of men be he stood for men To occupy exalted positionto command the attention Talmage did before the world would seem a tame to be envied by any J man But in my mind the humblest leachcr of Free Thought and Social Equality is King o men beside him he work and good they do will countiitlthe long run They stand for men Unknown and unnoticed without ev xtigasown seeds of mental liberty in the brain of one bright child whowill give genius to all humanity lifting the rlout of their poverty and men Artal enslavement hit s securing Demo cratic institutions to the world and pence and happiness to men and all FREE FREE FREEIII than make his forty thousand dollars year buncoelng the Ignorant darken- Ing and misdirecting the minds of child placing footfalls In the path of and by such duplicity enjoying worldwide fame Let me live to enlighten those in the spark of thought burns dim give them my best judgment ithiout a price to those do not know and whom I 4can never know to tow the seeds of liberty of thought and speech which i blossom lu generations unborn is to me is more than the enlarged tof Talmage more than ease 1 adulajtlonSaint or Bishop or Primate or Pope 1monstcrsbodies of men r J B WILSON D Cincinnati i BRO INKSLINGERy ikes the dWants touX Chico Texas April 1902 Charles C Moore Esq Eminent Heath en Lexington Ky My Dear Sir and Bro in PrlntI have read with great Interest a few copies of e Grass Blade and would be de ghted to exchange with you Our local newsdealer will orHer the for sale from his stand Let me hear from you and may your exposition cranky frauds never wane Very tru yours JUNE P MILLER Editor Chicago Review Why pay for a set of single hal ness when you can get one lust as good for 350 Why pay for a double atiess when you can get one just as ood for Send for our price list f We guarantee satisfaction If you etutlomi tills paper we will pay freight all orders over KOBKR BIownstown h- idrMBESTL1N ttJj 1 gr ITft rif v s I BLUE GRASS BLADE I l1r1l = THE GLORIOUS KINGDOM By W McCormick The following nrtlcle In manuscript received which W McCormick wrote for his Reflex No but us paper was refused mailing rights we take pleasure In giving a place In the Bible Editor t The humnp has now reached the period where we will he compelled to 0take thought and action on THE TION THE WORLD HAS BEE DRfiAMING OVER FOR THOUSAND- OF YEARS that question Is tile establishment of some kind of a govern ment or protocolony of ofllclal control as will endure for all future time without I tile constant worry and unease of mind that follows the succession of temporary change In the official ruling head of human government In order to satisfy the carnal cravings of th mind of the animal part of man the Kings and rulers have from the earliest history been generally and successive ly following each other In a blind Hope and pretended Faith that there was such a thing promised and there fore possible as a spiritual or religions kingdom to be established on thin earth as they have from time to time pretended to believe existed In the far away mythical heaven These various Kings or rulers have at all times justified their right to rule with special covenants and secret bar gains between themselves nnd their various and vaccinating man gods and each King along the way In history made evidence of a lively Hope that If the final and enduring and neverend ing kingdom could not be saddled over the entire people of the world undo and of their day they were quite cer tain that their various oldest sons would get their cloven hoofs forked down over the necks of THE WOUTil OF HUMAN CONVICTS so firmly that the glorious and neverending kingdom would at least be realized by their near by succeeding seed And now that THI PEOPLE OF THE ENTIRE GLOM HAVE ASSIGNED AND CONCENTRATED THEIR MONEY POWER In to the hands of the Yankee Jews of Europe who are the direct llnlel de scendants of the most wise deceitful and crafty of any of these forgone hu man covenants it brings the peo ple of the world right up against the final problem of the ages And It wont until the people act and If unit a few leaders such as the old slimy fossilized priests and preachers and place hunters and office holders think and act on this momentus problem then of course the GLORIOUS KING DOM will he established and a scurge of fatal blight will be established un der one trust or combine all over this globe And now since reason teaches that this scurge and blight could only be temporary owing to Internal lusts Jealousies and family coveteousness it would be a fatal lout and setback fpr the masses of the people io refuse to think and act in an Immediate protest and VETO ON THIS MOST DANGER OUS DAMNABLE AND DAMAGING move of all the ages So once more let me ask of each person male or female In all the English speaking world to set Your IMMEDIATE AND FOREVER CONSTANT VETO against this so called GLORIOUS KINGDOM and lets navoan intellectual smile Instead of a ghostly spiritual snare waste and wall and each prove yourself ONE OF THE i PEOPLE RELIGIOUS MAYSVILLE KY April lBWhile returnlg home from church last night at Cedar Mills Brown county Ohio across the river from here Richard Taylor aged 22 the son of a proml nent farmer was shot from ambush At Tyndall SD Rev Thomas A Blly Catholic priest became the father of a child of a laughter of Peter Schoff hansen the girl being only years old He then swindled a hanker out of and skipped between two days The Rev Morton Scott of lext ton aged who was recently Indicted by the grand jury for the nlleged forging of his wlfo3 name to her will was ar rested by Shcrilf Vllkeri on Thursday afternoon and lodged In jail and as yet has been unable to furnish bond special to the Cincinnati Enquirer says Charles T Booten of Portsmouth Ohio has sued for divorce from his wife because he saw Rev liams kissing and hugging her Other witnesses say they saw Sister Booten on his knee stroking s hair and kiss fag his brow NEW YORK April Because they declared their belief that Adam and Eve were mythical characters two young men who asked to be admitted to preach have failed to get the nee1 essary license from the Elizabeth N J Presbytery The candidates were wo AvenllellPreshyterlan Lovell has been a thirteen years Two copies the Breeches Bible have been found In Wyoming One was printed In It contains the Old Tes tament the Apocrypha a table of proper names the Iords Prayer the mandments and the canticles allset to music The feature of the book that makes It valuable is the following verse And they sewed flgge tree leaves gether and made themselves breeches Few copies of this edition are known to he In existence An Associated Press dispatch ends thus Within an hour he had written to the Pope petitioning him to relieve Amerl can worklngmen of the Catholic faith from the law of the abstinence from meat during Lent and suggested that they might as a compensation stain from Intoxicating drinks during the same periodmIn an autograph letter In XHI congratulated Archbishop Ireland on his zealous Interest In the working classes and granted the requested die pensatlon PHILADELPHIA PArhe creed committee of the Presbyterian Church pow sitting in this city disposed oftl t considerable work today coming to a definite decision on several vital points In the confession of faith It Is as fol The work of the committee so far ns completed provides a declaratory statement for chapter of the confer slon of faith on predestination and nJ bo for chapter section on elect In flints The secretary Dr William I Roberts repeats his statement that the American Presbyterian Church does not teach that any dying In Infancy are lost 3The committee further has agreed of the text of the confession In the matter of good works chapter section of its being a sin to rei fuse an oath chapter section no also to the Pope being a man of slni chapter section Comment remember when all Pro testonts ridiculed the Catholics and all Presbyterians ridiculed the Campbell Ites They dont do It now because the Catholics and the Campbellltes have got money VASFllNGTON April President Roosevelt today told Representatives Calderhead and Scott of Kansas thatI Eugene F Ware would not be ns Commissioner of Pensions for two or three months There is a possibility of opposition developing to his confirmation because pf Ills agnostic views It is said his attitude toward religion once had the ortert of keeping him out of Congress He wits a candidate for nomination In the Second Kansas District several years ago anti had a fair prospect of Hiiicess H was beaten however through the efforts of a preacher who headed a dekgntlAn that held the balance of power between the two candidates When the preacher was questioned ns to the reasons for his objection to Ware he pointed to a stanza In one his poems which reads For dont believe a thing Of the stories that are told Of the miracles of old Ihls stamped him In the clergymans mind as an Infidel and the delegation wlileh might have won the day for Ware turned the tide against him At Marion Indiana George Mesler swore out a search warrant against his brother Rev Amos Mesler and six offi cers searched the parsonage for 5000 vhlch the sky pilot was suspected of having stolen A special to the Cincin nati Enquirer says Rev Amos Mesler disposed of his brothers property In this State a farm In South Dakota and a farm in Nebras ka receiving in cash about 20000 A part of this money was sent to the brother in Arkansas and a part was given tc the ath rnry r George Steal tr who compromised the alimony judgment with the divorced wife for 1500 and gave the young woman 1000 George Mesler returned to Marion cently very unexpectedly and found the minister living In luxury and driving the finest team of horses to the best carriage In Marion An Investigation of the accounts of the minister was made and the brother charged him with being short 7000 and demanded a tlement Rev Amos Mesler left Marlon and it was thought he was attempting to leave the State with the money He was arrested at Indianapolis and brought balk to Marlon When he arrived here he turned over his horses and carriages and it w is thought a settlement had been agreed upon until the search warrant was Is sued today Sensible to the Last New York Editor Charles C Moore- I enclose for the linotype In the lilade of March you say of an editor that he Is afraid of the Christians and that you would not give a dnfor such a man Is it not possible that he asks your not to give his name for other reaI sons than from fear and that they may be good ones Hut suppose it fear he is no more to be blamed font than some men are for being late You do not reject contributions be oaufe they are small The man partly converted is some help Why should he he repulsed because he is not strong any more than a contribution bo rejected because It is not large One might scold a person for not doing better when he deserves praise for doing as well and appreciation for coming as far not farther than they protest might be more helpful luau denunciation for not coming farther Tits Is Just a private letter and with the contribution is for Prohibition and religious rights At the risk of being a coward ko I ask you not to publish my namo nor address with it In any way Comment dont blame any man for being afraid but I do blame him for not- uaybngaud doing 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